Solar power station dish Tenerife - October 2022

Derelict Places

Help Support Derelict Places:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
Newage

Newage

Veteran Member
Veteran Member
Joined
Aug 1, 2006
Messages
756
Reaction score
2,600
Hi all
Day 1

Another location for day 1 was the iconic solar power station dish, loads of company hype about this place.
Built in 2008 and planned to provide 12.6MW per year to keep the lights on around Tenerife, build by a Japanese company.
It`s as f***** and derelict as you can get.

I wounder where the money went.

Picture time.

52468457305_569e897c3e_b.jpg


52468543688_73514b2786_b.jpg


The amazing thing about the dish was that it was all build on site and is made of re-bar.
52468542758_a2ed673b80_b.jpg


52468543368_5825d1cef7_b.jpg


Right that`s it for the solar power plant as there ain`t much there.
Thanks for looking and all and any comments are most welcome, click the link below to see a few more pictures on my FlickR site.

FlickR Solar power plant

Cheers Newage
 
Last edited:
Looking online, this solar energy dish has a chequered history. It was built by a Panama-based company on "protected land" - whatever that is - and "without the necessary permits in place prior to commencement of construction". Tenerife has its home-grown NIMBYs - its farmers - who objected to the dish, despite obviously using oodles of electricity day in, day out, night in, night out. They complained that it was "unsightly" - whereas the lines of steel pylons across their farmland bringing the electricity that powered their farms and homes were not.

So it was never completed, and thus never had a chance of showing its worth.
The company "Lysply tried again three times to restart works but eventually yielded to the public and work stopped permanently".

And: "Today, the site is abandoned and there are no plans to clean up the mess left behind".

What a pity Tenerife is so far from South America; I know of some Argentinian scrap merchants who are looking for another island colonised by Europeans to plunder. And there will be no language problems. Olé!
 

Similar threads

Newage
The Skeleton - Gran Canaria 2024
Replies
5
Views
764
Marc B
Marc B
Newage
Anaza Hotel Tenerife - October 2022
Replies
9
Views
2K
TeeJF
TeeJF
Newage
Leper village Tenerife - October 2022
Replies
6
Views
1K
HistoryBuff
HistoryBuff
Newage
Del Rio Dam Tenerife - October 2022
Replies
5
Views
1K
BikinGlynn
BikinGlynn
EXPLOREWITHME23
Manors North train station october 2022
Replies
0
Views
1K
EXPLOREWITHME23
EXPLOREWITHME23

Latest posts

Back
Top